Cool Person of the Day

Many people have sold or given away used furniture when moving to a new location.  Sometimes the furniture doesn’t fit in a new home and sometimes it’s just too much trouble to transport it.  Either way, one can find tons of advertisements every day on Craigslist or other community sites about used furniture that people are selling or giving away.  However, one of the major inconveniences of this phenomenon is the attempts to transport the furniture.  Often times, people do not have a vehicle or other means of transporting large pieces of furniture they would otherwise love to buy from someone who is moving.  Cool person in technology Bill Bobbit founded Move Loot to help people in these situations.  The concept behind Move Loot is simple.  It is a listing site for selling and purchasing used furniture from other community members, but once an item sells, Move Loot sends a team to deliver the furniture from the seller to the buyer.  No hassle of going to pick the furniture up or finding a vehicle that can carry it.  Bobbit’s company does the move for the seller and buyer.  Customers who experience problems accessing the site’s furniture listings can get help from an online tech support provider. Read more »

Finding affordable clothing that still maintains a strong sense of someone’s personal style and looks great is not as easy as most people would imagine.  Many who have a particular sense of style often have to sacrifice those preferences due to financial setbacks or issues of availability.  Cool person in technology Katrina Lake wants to make finding one’s personal style and being able to flaunt it as simple as becoming a member of a subscription service.  Lake’s company Stitch Fix provides what is, essentially, personal fashion consulting by subscription.  Users pay Stitch Fix a monthly fee of twenty dollars and receive a box of five clothing items to try on for themselves every thirty days.  Customers decide what items to send back and which to keep.  They only pay for the items they decide to hold onto and simply return what they don’t want. Read more »

Content marketing is a huge part of growing and maintaining a strong web presence for a company’s brand.  To bring people to one’s website, companies need to present online visitors with content that is both informative and enjoyable.  The more people that associate a brand with positive and engaging content, the better it is for that brand’s public image.  However, producing engaging content that draws people in isn’t a simple process.  There is a significant amount of work in planning and delivering content to aim for the most reach and engagement on the web.  Cool person in technology and Triblio CEO Andre Yee wants to help companies with that process.  Yee’s product Triblio is a content marketing management and analytics platform that helps content providers learn from their audience and strategize.  Read more »

Consumers often get special perks, discounts and other rewards for their membership in certain organizations and clubs.  The AARP notably provides many discounts and perks for its members, but they are hardly alone.  Other organizations such as university alumni associations and professional groups such as the AMA also provide their members with special benefits.  Of course, individual brands, retail stores and credit card companies also offer members of their loyalty programs many bonuses to entice customers.  The issue with consumers having access to so many of these perks is that they forget the advantages they have.  It is not difficult to lose track of all one’s bonuses and potential rewards, which leads to spending money that one would not have to if her or she were more aware of their perks.  Cool person in technology Greg Hammerman created Larky to help people be more aware of the rewards to which they are entitled.  Larky is a mobile application for the iPhone that connects with all of a user’s membership accounts and automatically reminds them when there is an opportunity to use a perk.  Customers who experience connectivity issues getting their memberships to synchronize with Larky may need iPhone repair to restore connectivity.  Read more »

People have been creating personalized playlists since before music was digital.  Thousands of people still remember recording personal “mix tapes” on cassettes and sharing them with their friends or giving them as gifts to loved ones.  Digital playlists are, in many ways, the modern version of these personalized mix tapes and just like the mix tapes of old, people have a desire to share the playlists they create today.  Enter cool person in technology Darius Fong who has created a new service designed around the idea of everyday users crafting personalized playlists and sharing them with the world.  Fong’s product goes by the name of weeSPIN, emphasizing the social aspect of the service by using a play on the plural pronoun “we”.  Read more »

For many people, working from home and being able to sell items on sites like Amazon and eBay would be a dream job.  However, it’s not as simple as it sounds.  Marketing is a major concern, as is keeping track of how all items appear across different online sales channels.  Cool person in technology Jason Nadaf has created a platform that helps online business owners to unify their sales approach easily.  Nadaf’s program SureDone helps people sell their inventory across numerous online sales channels all at once without wasting time posting the same item on many different sites.  Nadaf’s platform lets users create one universal listing to ensure the same information and photos are on every site where a product appears.  Users can use SureDone to add new listings whenever they want or automatically edit current listings with new information.  Rather than having to update many different channels, sellers can update all their listings from just one page. Nadaf’s platform puts listings on eBay, Amazon, Etsy, and Google Shopping. If product listings aren’t updating properly with SureDone, a small business owner may want to contact a computer support provider to learn the cause of the problem. Read more »

According to the Learnerator website, when cool person in technology Luke Liu was in high school, he took 11 AP courses and exams, experiencing much difficulty and stress when trying to study for them with only textbooks and notes.  This past experience gave him the necessary motivation to found a technology company designed to help students with their AP exams.  Liu’s company, Learnerator, provides students with an interactive studying and practice resource online to help them with their AP examinations.  Learnerator provides students with practice tests for nineteen different AP exams including Calculus, Biology and Computer Science.  Students can take the tests as often as they like and find explanations for all the answers they got incorrect on previous attempts.  Liu believes that an interactive experience such as the one he provides with Learnerator can be more effective for many students than simply reading and re-reading static study material for hours.  Any students who have trouble using the Learnerator site should seek online tech support for help with the product. Read more »

For decades, watching and studying game film has been a constant source of help for high school and college athletic teams.  Taping performances to learn from mistakes and discover where certain strategies work and don’t work is something that varsity coaches in dozens of sports do for their players.  However, athletes do not always have an easy time learning from the tape presented to them.  Not every player knows exactly what to look for or what the most important elements of their performances to inspect are when studying tape.  This lack of understanding can frustrate coaches and prevent time studying film from being productive for athletes.  Cool person in technology Vasu Kulkarni founded his company Krossover to prevent this from happening to high school, college and even professional sports teams. Read more »

Traditional TV ratings are mostly indicative of a show’s potential as an advertisement space.  The more people that watch a show, the more eyeballs view the commercials attached to that show.  However, in the age of digital media, significant money can now come from direct digital sales to an online audience.  Ratings are not always helpful at measuring the overall potential of a show to make money through DVD, Blu-Ray and digital sales. A show with a smaller but very active and engaged audience can outsell a show with a very large audience who only watches casually.  Now, with social media becoming a major part of viewers’ everyday lives, networks and producers finally have a chance to gain insight into audience engagement.  Invested viewers constantly tweet and update their Facebook profiles with comments about their favorite shows as they air and directly afterwards.  Cool person in technology Laurent Maisonnave has created a system called SeeVibes to report the level of social media engagement for television shows.  With Maisonnave’s system, network and cable stations can get insight into how many people emotionally invest in their content and how they can encourage further investment.  Read more »

Fitness apps and devices have become a major category of tech product in the consumer world in recent years.  Everything from iPhone apps that provide special workouts to wristbands that measure your daily fitness statistics have flooded the market.  However, most of these devices specifically aim to help users with weight loss and cardio-based exercise.  Statistics regarding calories and conditioning are easier to track numerically, so this focus is not really a surprise for most.  However, cool person in technology and Skulpt CEO Jose Bohorquez is releasing a product that will help men and women not just interested in losing weight, but also gaining muscle.  Measuring muscle quality and body fat percentage is key for those who are trying to add muscle to an athletic frame rather than just keep excess weight off their bodies.  That’s why Skulpt Aim, Bohorquez’s product, provides users with statistics about their muscle quality specifically rather than focus on calories burned.  Read more »